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and sheep myself. We should have a fair that has every kind of 

 animal standard; don't need to be all standard. We want draft 

 horses, but we don't want very many standard bred, but we must 

 have some. We must have races and we must have attractions at 

 the fair. We should go on broader plans. I '11 tell you something ; 

 they raised a standard bred three year old colt there at Ames that 

 sold for $6,500. Did they ever sell a draft horse for a third of 

 that? They didn't sell the colt for that amount, but the man who 

 got him sold him for that. Did they ever raise a draft horse that 

 sold for $650? There was a horse sold in Marshalltown for $10,- 

 000, and he went to New York. Was there ever a draft stallion 

 sold for $10,000 that was raised by the college ? 



I am talking of Iowa. Now, don't think there is any occasion at 

 this time for personal talk. I do not know Mr. O'Donnell. In 

 fact, I never saw him before today that I know of. So let us be 

 fair; let us get down on the ground floor. There is nothing personal 

 in what I say and what I am getting at with you is the fact that 

 you are addressing a board of managers, and we, as fair man- 

 agers, want to secure standard bred horses and we have got to raise 

 them if we get them. 



Mr. O'Donnell: Mr. Chairman: I just wanted to explain our 

 attitude. I don't know whether Mr. Curtin was in at the time I 

 made the statement. I told you at the outset that I am not a race 

 horse man ; that I do not understand the game, and for that reason 

 was leaving that up to the secretaries of fairs themselves. They 

 know better how to work out the race horse problem than I. I have 

 always maintained that in order to get a good crowd you will find 

 that you have to have races. There is not another judge of stock 

 today that is any more favorable to the race horse game than I 

 am, but I believe I got more blame than any other fellow from 

 Ames college today; but the thing I like to do is to work for the 

 uniformity of the premium list. There was one fair that I could 

 mention where they had a $10 premium for standard bred and 

 $4 for all other breeds. Now what I claim is that the standard 

 bred should have the $10 premium. If the Percheron gets $10, I 

 should say the standard bred should have it. I don't feel that the 

 Percheron, the Shire, the Clydesdale and the Belgian ought to be 

 bunched as one class and given a $10 premium and the standard 

 bred horse a $10 premium in one class. I don't believe we ought 

 to cut out the standard bred draft horse. In our fair, what we call 

 our pumpkin show, we spent 40 per cent, I think about 32 per cent, 



